Japan needs to revise its retrial system, which leads to prolonged proceedings that could last for decades, a sister of Iwao Hakamata, an aging former inmate on retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder in central Japan, said Wednesday."We have been fighting for 58 years, and finally we are in a retrial. This is ridiculously long," Hideko Hakamata, 91, told a press conference in Tokyo, ahead of a ruling slated for Sept. 26 for her 88-year-old brother, who is still facing a death sentence.The start of the retrial in October last year at the Shizuoka District Court raised hopes that Iwao Hakamata w…READ FULL ARTICLE
